Member Since: Oct. 23, 2011

Juan LePuen


Biography

American translator and editor, born in 1969.

Where to find Juan LePuen online

Blog: http://fario-fariobooks.blogspot.com/

Books

Road Hazards    by Juan LePuen
Price: $0.99 USD. 3110 words. Published by Fario  on May 22, 2012. Fiction.
"We'll spend five minutes talking with some people, go from one station to the next with others, live two or three years, or even twenty, with others still. At bottom, though, we do nothing but run into each other (how long doesn't matter), run into each other and always by chance. And always part company."
Julio Ramón Ribeyro, Impurity, and the Trials of the Amateur    by Juan LePuen
Price: $1.80 USD. 6310 words. Published by Fario  on February 5, 2012. Essay.
"To me," wrote Peruvian Julio Ramón Ribeyro, "the crippled, the cretins, the beggars, and the pariahs. They come naturally to me without my having to summon them."
Kleist, Cortés, and the Great Santiago Earthquake of 1647    by Juan LePuen
Price: $2.00 USD. 7840 words. Published by Fario  on November 2, 2011. Essay.
It is generally agreed that the sources of Heinrich von Kleist's bloody tales are European, but Juan LePuen argues that, for those interested in the genesis of "Michael Kohlhaas" or "The Earthquake in Chile," such colonial American documents as Hernán Cortés's letters to Charles V make for lines of inquiry of no less promise than that of more conventional European sources.
Teacher of the Year    by Juan LePuen
Price: $1.00 USD. 1740 words. Published by Fario  on October 24, 2011. Fiction.
When the standoffish head of his department summons him to her office, "Professor" John Newhouse is sure it is to let him know that he has been given the annual award for the teacher who most clearly embodies the ideals of the department's illustrious founder, Dr. Edward Nortick.
Landlocked    by Juan LePuen
Price: $1.00 USD. 1870 words. Published by Fario  on October 24, 2011. Fiction.
Barely four years removed from graduation, three friends from high school, now more interested in drink than in each other, recall the evening one of their number emerged suddenly sobered from the stranger's apartment he had disappeared into shortly before.
Separate but Equal    by Juan LePuen
Price: $1.00 USD. 2600 words. Published by Fario  on October 24, 2011. Fiction.
A high-school basketball game threatens to trigger a race riot in Caddo Parish, Louisiana.
Kamikaze    by Juan LePuen
Price: $1.00 USD. 2350 words. Published by Fario  on October 23, 2011. Fiction.
The mid-1980s in a moribund Caddo Parish, Louisiana. Two emissaries from a booming Japan meet unexpectedly vicious resistance from a class of ne'er-do-well high-school students.
Failure Notice    by Juan LePuen
Price: $1.00 USD. 1970 words. Published by Fario  on October 23, 2011. Fiction.
In the brief tale "Failure Notice," a graduate student's dismal performance on his qualifying exams causes him to take a new look at his surroundings.
Ruphina    by Juan LePuen
Price: $1.00 USD. 2330 words. Published by Fario  on October 23, 2011. Fiction.
Buenos Aires, in the latter years of the Menem presidency. Signs of an impending economic and social collapse are everywhere, but the self-styled consultant of "Ruphina," intent on his more personal concerns, pays them no heed.
Cashiers and Courtesy Clerks    by Juan LePuen
Price: $1.00 USD. 2620 words. Published by Fario  on October 23, 2011. Fiction.
"When I was sixteen I got a job bagging groceries at the Albertsons on Southfield and East Kings."

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argentina    basketball    bolivia    buenos aires    caddo parish    camaro    carpet sales    cycle touring    earthquakes    graduate school    heinrich von kleist    hernan cortes    impurity    mothers against drunk driving    peruvian literature    pledge of allegiance    primo levi    qualpopoc    race relations    ribeyro    roberto arlt    santiago chile    short story    teachers    university of virginia    yellow peril